Mumbai: On a humid evening in May, a group of executives from various asset reconstruction companies gathered at the ballroom of hotel President in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai. The third and more recent challenge is the advent of India’s so-called bad bank, the state-owned National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. As a rule, the industry thrives when the level of corporate non-performing …
National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited is another attempt being made to resolve the NPA issue. DRTs, Lok Adalats, ARCs and IBC have all been routes chosen by the government in the past to take on the bad loans of banks so that they could concentrate on banking rather than resolving bad loans. IBC too has witnessed diminishing returns literally with …
Paving the way for a major clean-up of bad loans in the banking system, the Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a ₹30,600-crore guarantee programme for securities to be issued by the newly incorporated ‘bad bank’ for taking over and resolving non-performing assets amounting to ₹2 lakh crore. The Reserve Bank of India is in the process of granting a licence for …